Soul Strike – A Striking Review
Soul Strike is one of the newer games developed and released by Com2uS Holdings. I already reviewed one of their games (Summoners Wars) and since I was a big fan of that one, I figured I might as well try this one too.
Soul Strike is a tiny bit different, though — it’s an idle RPG type of game. Currently, they’re celebrating 1 million downloads and they’re dishing out large amount of rewards so I picked the perfect timing to start.
Gameplay
Soul Summoning/Gearing up
As I’ve mentioned already, Soul Strike is an idle RPG with its own twist on the genre. The game starts with a generic character that you need to level up. As you progress deeper into the game, you get a chance to make it more personalized.
You can do that by Soul Summoning, which is the way of getting equipment like weapons, armor, and accessories. Each piece of equipment has its own unique design that affects how you look and also gives you some juicy stats. Since there is a vast number of designs, with the right combination you can make your character stand out from the rest.
Classes
Your character can equip different classes which boosts your stats and has an additional bonus that varies from class to class depending on the rarity. To obtain the mentioned classes you’ll have to summon them.
You’ll notice a recurring theme when I talk about how to obtain items in the game — surprise surprise, you gotta summon them. That can be overwhelming at times, especially for the F2P players.
Skills
Skills too can be summoned and you can equip and use up to 6 skills on your character. There are 4 types of elemental skills (Fire, Earth, Wind, and Water) and 1 Physical type of skill. The power of them depends on the rarity as well, so the rarer the skill, the stronger you get. However I found out there is also an exception — you can use lower-rarity skills that buff your attack or reduce the cooldown of the rest of the skills.
Ally
You get to use up to 3 allies in the battle and they too need to be summoned. The power of the ally depends on the rarity and each ally has its own skill that is used in battle automatically. In this case, I just use the best units that I’ve managed to summon and it kinda worked out.
Other Stuff
There are other things that are also important in the game but I’ll try to keep it simple. For example, you can summon Relics and equip them but that’s more advanced stuff that I’ve barely scratched and to be perfectly honest with you, as a F2P player, I don’t know if I ever will. That’s the main reason for not talking about it much.
All of the things that you summon can be leveled up with the resources that you get while idling or from the dungeons and can be done daily for a couple of times.
Graphics
For the looks of the game, it’s decent as it comes. The character design seems very detailed, and options for customizing it, at a glance, seem endless. Skills animations are very beautiful and colorful.
Overall, Soul Strike is designed nicely. The only thing that doesn’t really fit is summoning. It feels very generic considering it’s the main focus of the game. The animation of the summoning has a lot of room for improvement.
Final thoughts
Even though I’ve been hooked on the game, I have to admit that it has its own flaws. The main thing that bothers me is the ads. They’re not pushed in your face per se but there are a lot of them that need to be watched in order to either gain some kind of boost, extra run in the dungeon, shiny goodies, and even summonings.
In the end, a good portion of playtime is spent watching ads. I mean nobody is forcing you to watch them but in the end, rewards add up too much to be ignored, and they boost my progress so much.
One thing that is pushed in your face are those damned progress packs. For every little thing I do, 1 pack pops up. At one point in the game, I had over 50 of those to pack available to buy. Ranging from 1 dollar to somewhere around 30, they get very tempting, especially if you get stuck.
It just seems very overwhelming and greedy if you ask me. If they don’t chill and step back, it doesn’t look good for them. It’s only a matter of time before negative reviews overrun all the positive ones.
I might be a little biased but if nothing, I’m realistic. Soul Strike is a great game with a lot of potential. But they are headed in the wrong direction. So if you do decide to try the game for yourself, I advise you to thread carefully. It’s a slippery slope, and before you know you’ll be deep into those micro packs. Enjoy gaming and spend responsibly.
